Screenshot in Huawei Ascend Y

How to take a screenshot or screen capture on a Ascend Y

One essential feature of modern smartphones is the ability to take screenshots, capturing an image of what is currently displayed on your Huawei Ascend Y's screen.

Although there are apps for this function, you don’t need to install any additional ones, as it’s already built into the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system.

Taking a screenshot allows you to save a WhatsApp conversation, a Tinder message, an Instagram story, a Facebook photo, or a video frame directly to your Huawei device's memory.

If, on the other hand, you want to record a video of your Ascend Y's screen, such as a video call, a story, a web page, or part of an internet video, you can follow the next tutorial: Record screen on Ascend Y

Table of Contents:

First method:

If you want to make a screenshot to your Huawei Ascend Y you have to follow these simple steps:

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

1- First step:

First, go to the screen that you want to capture a screenshot of on your Huawei Ascend Y, whether it's a web page, chat, or application.

2- Second step:

Press the power key simultaneously and the volume key down. If you want to capture a video the procedure is the same but pressing the power key and the volume key up. In EMUI (customization of Huawei to the Android operating system) drag three fingers from the top of the screen down to perform the screenshot.

3- Third step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your mobile/cell phone Huawei Ascend Y.

You can find the image gallery on the home screen. It typically has a photo or instant photo icon. Depending on the software version installed, your image gallery application might be Google Photos. If that's the case, look for an icon resembling a four-pointed star made of paper, with each point in a different color.

4- Fourth step:

Open the image gallery, the images and photos will appear sorted by date, click on the capture that you just made on your Ascend Y, and you will be able to edit it, trim it or send it to your contacts or through your preferred social network.

Video instructions

Screenshot without using the buttons on Ascend Y

If you cannot use the physical buttons of the Huawei Ascend Y because they are broken or you do not want to use them because it is a problem for you to press both buttons at the same time to take the screenshot, there is an alternative so you can continue taking screenshots without the power and volume buttons that we tell you about below:

1- First step:

Go to the screen or application you want to capture the screen on your Huawei.

2- Second step:

Display the quick access or settings bar of your Huawei Ascend Y. To do this, slide your finger down from the top of the screen, the shortcuts to device settings will be displayed.

3- Third step:

Press the screenshot icon, if you don't see the icon, swipe down again to display the full panel.
If you can't see this icon, you may need to add it to the shortcuts panel.

4- Fourth step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your Huawei phone or tablet.

You can find the image gallery on the home screen. It typically has a photo or instant photo icon. Depending on the software version installed, your image gallery application might be Google Photos. If that's the case, look for an icon resembling a four-pointed star made of paper, with each point in a different color.

How to capture a full page in Huawei Ascend Y?

If you want to capture a complete web page in your Huawei Ascend Y first of all you should know that this method is not available natively on Android for the moment however Huawei has incorporated it into its EMUI customization layer.

To make a scroll screenshot of a web page, a WhatsApp conversation, or any other application on your Huawei Ascend Y, follow these steps:

1- Take a screenshot using the method indicated above. When taking the screenshot, the capture and screen capture menu will appear for a few seconds before disappearing.

2- Click on “Scrollshot” and wait while the screen scrolls, capturing all the content.

3- When you want to stop the screenshot, click on the screen. If the web page or application has a very long or infinite scroll, it can generate a very large image and block the system.

Once the screenshot is complete, it will be saved in the Ascend Y's image gallery, where you can edit and share it on social networks.

About the device:

Huawei Ascend Y is a mobile/cell phone with dimensions of 116.8 x 61 x 11.7 mm (4.60 x 2.40 x 0.46 in), a weight of 125 grams, a screen size of 3.5 inches (~51.2% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 320 x 480 pixels (~165 ppi pixel density).

It has 800 MHz Cortex-A5 processor (CPU), a graphics card (GPU) Adreno 200,a 256 MB RAM RAM memory, and an internal memory of 120 MB.

The Huawei Ascend Y comes from the factory with the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system.

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